Presenting music and discussing the tuba with tubists Arnold Jacobs, Harvey Phillips, Fritz Kaenzig, and Richard Frazier. This mixdown includes recorded and live music in the last three minutes.

Studs Terkel interviews Rita Streich about her recital coming up. He also plays selections from her work for viewers to listen to. She also talks about music during World War II.

Studs Terkel interviews Birgit Nilsson about her role Leonore in Fidelio at the Lyric Opera. This is an inverview done in two parts.

Interviewing Madame Lotte Lehmann about her opera roles and how the genre of opera has changed.

Studs Terkel interviews soprano Teresa Stich-Randall. This is an interview done in two parts.

Licia Albanese discusses her performance preparations, advice to young new opera singers, the conductor techniques from Fausto Cleva, and the late Arturo Toscanini.

Aaron Copland discusses his music, his colleagues, contemporaries, musicians, and composers.

Studs Terkel interviews soprano Teresa Stich-Randall about her musical performances of Don Giovanni. Some of the interview is spoken in German.

Studs Terkel sits down to interview American Violinist Isaac Stern. Stern performs for Terkel on the radio.